It was a major part of the trump harris debate. And on thursday, there was a further development in north dakota. A judge struck down the state s near total ban on abortion, saying north dakota s constitution gives women a fundamental right to choose abortion before foetal viability. Elisabeth smith is with the centre for reproductive rights, the organisation that argued on behalf of the plantiffs in north dakota. What is your reaction to the ruling? an incredible ruling and the first time that a state that totally banned abortion in the united states, one of those 14 the united states, one of those 1a states, has seen abortion be reaffirmed as a right under the state constitution. This was not a decision based on voters based on a state constitutional amendment, this was a judge saying no, the north dakota constitution protects the fundamental right to make a decision about bodily autonomy, free from government interference. This is a wonderful day for people of north dakota and acros
Certain content, most of which was pro russian content or content that was aimed at exploiting divisions in us society. So everything from being against the war in ukraine to exploiting divisions on race, on lgbtq issues, on criminal issues. And this was quite an interesting conspiracy in that it really was two employees of rt, which is a company that is banned basically from broadcasting in the united states, europe, the uk, has been since the start of the ukrainian war, and they were both working but representing multiple individuals behind the scenes, trying to make it seem as legitimate an operation as possible, and posing as a billionaire who ended up being fictitious. To say that it was a billionaire with a background in france, in brussels, who was a banker, who was trying to get this information out. And really, it was these two rt employees posing as him and employees that worked for him. Ok, let s, yeah, let s unpick it a bit more. You mentioned that company, that tennessee f
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repair shop presenter, Jay Blades whos been charged with engaging in controlLing and coercive behaviour against his estranged wife. And the i newspapers lead analyses the surge in private Health Care saying record numbers of people are turning away from the national health service. Hello there. It was an unseasonably chilly start to Friday Morning with A Touch Of Frost for some, but lots of blue Sky And Sunshine throughout the day and we started to draw in that warmer feeLing air. Now that trend is just set to continue over the next few days. So warmer by day, milder by night, too. For the weekend some sunshine, but also some outbreaks of rain here and there, too. You can see all of the sunshine clearly with the lack of cloud on the SatelLite Picture here. We will see this frontjust gradually continue to push its way further eastwards through the rest of the night, bringing outbreaks of Rain Across Northern Ireland and Western Scotland. More cloud here, too, and some of The Cloud will
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